Thursday, November 15, 2012

I wonder if
I can be excommunicated, for voicing my opinion and displeasure about some of
the dogmas that still plague the Catholic Church. I don’t think religion can
ever progress, if it does, it does not qualify as one. There ‘must be’ something
archaic, traditional when it comes to worshiping God…it just needs to be. No
questions asked. It seems more of a tyrannical reign than a relationship with
someone who frees you in spirit and love.

A close
associate once told me, “Religion should a very private affair. One should not
even ask someone regarding it. It shouldn’t affect anybody.”

And I think
that it is true. Who I pray to should be none of your business.

The death
of the 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar has obviously taken the world by a storm
of critics. The Catholic Church, will no doubt, face some heat. That too, in a
time, when the Pope has called for the Year of Faith to be reinstated across
the globe. I can talk only for myself. I
wish that the Church could accept abortion as a practice when medically
required. Not after the mother has passed away. In the hope of not committing a
murder, the Irish doctors now have their hands stained by Savita’s blood. An
eye for an eye? What happened to the mother’s right to live? That was grossly
unaccounted for. Why must the world decide on the fate of a woman’s body? It is
hers to decide. Why should men pass judgement over things they can never
understand or experience.

In view of
the increasing trepidation of protests against the Catholic Church, the Pope
(to me) seems to be reigning in the last few desperate attempts to unite the
believers in Christ.

To a Catholic’s eyes, the blood-thirsty noveau vampires of
today may seem to very cannibalistic and uncivil. But when after the mass, you
see the high and mighty powerful members of the congregation mix around only
with a select few, you know there is politics everywhere.

Here, I
mock not the Gods, but question the institution that Man has created. It has
now changed past recognition. There are opposing verdicts in the Bible too. But
what can I say. I’m too young to understand the ways of the world or pass
judgement about anything. However, now I see that this can be an apt project,
which will be put up here from time to time. Let me just put it this way…that I
seek to know the Bible better.